US man jailed for killing, murder bid
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A New York City man will spend 20 years to life in prison for killing his five-year-old son and sickening his seven-year-old daughter with poison-laced pizza.
After learning that his ex-wife was seeing another man, Leonardo Espinal took it out on their children in November 2012 by tainting their pizza with rat poison, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said on Thursday after the sentencing.
The little girl, Mia, threw up after eating the pizza. When her brother, Steward, soiled himself, their father took him into the bathroom.
Espinal’s stepmother called emergency dispatch. Police broke down the bathroom door. Steward was in the bathtub, dead from a combination of the poison and being submerged in water.
“My beloved angel,” the children’s mother, Rosaura Abreu, said in a victim impact statement that was written in Spanish, translated into English and read by a prosecutor in court.
“I will never forget the last time I saw my little son ... He was radiant, happy, content.
“When it was time for me to leave, he followed me to the door and I knelt down to talk with him. It’s as if my heart knew it would be the last time I would see him alive.”
Steward told his mother he loved her. They hugged and she said “that I loved him from the bottom of my heart.”
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